These databases comprise part of the Pennsylvania Digital Archives from the state government. We’ve only included those databases and documents which are most relevant to genealogists. All of them are free for you to use.
During the New Deal Era, workers of Annals of Cleveland staff summarized and indexed material from early Cleveland newspapers, beginning with the inaugural issue of the city’s first paper, the July 31, 1818 Cleaveland Gazette and Commercial Register. The project provided jobs for unemployed white-collar workers during the Depression of the 1930s and created an important record of early life and thought in the city of Cleveland.
Michigan began requiring divorce records to be recorded on a county level in 1897, however, some counties began recording them as early as 1892.There are two sets of information for this database. The first, comprises images, and an index to those images, of Michigan divorce records for the years of 1897-1938; the second contains only an index of records from 1939-1952. In total, however, you have access to divorce records issued in Michigan for the years 1897-1952, and a few earlier then that.
This page intends to introduce you to the Virginia vital records that are available for genealogical research and show you where they may be found, whether online or via official departments. Vital records, as the name implies, pertain to significant life events: birth, marriage, divorce, and death. Managed by civil authorities, they are essential sources of genealogical information. However, official vital records are only available for relatively recent periods. Despite their more recent official origin in Virginia these records are crucial for genealogical research, often providing information on family members dating back to the seventeenth century.
